English Composition
By Dr. Akash Garg, DC, MS, MBA, MEd · Updated October 20, 2026
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Chapters
- 1Writing as Thinking: The Rhetorical SituationWriting Is Thinking, Not Transcription, The Five Elements of the Rhetorical Situation, Audience: The Reader You Are Actually Writing For
- 2Reading Critically and Analyzing RhetoricTwo Kinds of Reading, Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Reading the Appeals, Finding the Argument Under the Prose
- 3The Writing Process: Invention, Drafting, RevisionThe Process Is a Loop, Not a Line, Invention: Making Something Out of Nothing, Shaping: From Pile to Plan
- 4Thesis, Claim and PurposeWhat a Thesis Actually Is, Purpose: What the Thesis Has to Do, Building the Claim: Scope, Reason, Stakes
- 5Paragraphs, Unity and CoherenceThe Paragraph as a Unit of Thought, Unity: One Paragraph, One Controlling Idea, Development: Making the Paragraph Earn Its Space
- 6Evidence and SupportWhat Counts as Evidence, Matching Evidence to the Claim, Making Evidence Mean Something
- 7Argument: Structure and FallaciesWhat an Argument Is Made Of, Warrants: The Assumption Doing the Real Work, Arranging the Argument on the Page
- 8Research: Finding and Evaluating SourcesFrom Topic to Researchable Question, The Source Landscape, Searching on Purpose
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- 9Integrating Sources: Summary, Paraphrase, QuotationThree Moves, One Job, Summary: Compression Without Distortion, Paraphrase: Rewriting, Not Word-Swapping
- 10Citation and Academic IntegrityWhat a Citation Is Actually For, The Anatomy of a Citation, Building References for Real Sources
- 11Style, Clarity and ConcisionFind the Character, Find the Action, Cutting Without Losing Anything, Old Information First: The Physics of Flow
- 12The Grammar and Mechanics That Actually MatterSentence Boundaries: The Error That Costs the Most, Agreement: Subjects, Verbs and Pronouns, Modifiers, Parallelism and Word Order
- 13Genres: Narrative, Analysis, Argument, ReflectionGenre Is a Move Set, Not a Container, Narrative: Making Experience Mean Something, Analysis: Taking Something Apart to Show How It Works
- 14Revision, Peer Review and the PortfolioRevision Is Re-seeing, Not Repairing, Global Revision: The Reverse Outline, Local Revision and Editing: One Pass, One Problem
Written by Dr. Akash Garg
Doctor of Chiropractic, MS in Pharmacology, MS in Management and Leadership, MBA, and MEd degrees in Chemistry, English, Higher Education and Learning Experience Design. Teaching college science since 2007.